LibGuides: ENGLISH 1101 Course Materials: 2020: Texts/Sites

Grammar Bytes

Grammar Bytes!

Guide to Grammar and Writing

Guide to Grammar and Writing

Excelsior Owl

Excelsior OWL

FILMS on DEMAND

English: The Standard Deviants(r) Core Curriculum Series This straight-talking ten-part series, adapted from the popular series developed for students to enhance their test-taking skills, combines serious academic content with a humorous presentation style to help make the rules of English more accessible.
Writing Essentials This program shows how effective written communication is possible for anyone, even those who struggle to complete a simple fax or e-mail. Methods for improvement include gauging the needs of the reader, keeping prose short and simple, emphasizing benefits, avoiding jargon and overblown language, employing a confident yet respectful tone, and more.
Writing Narratives This informative program exposes areas of narrative writing that most frequently pose challenges for beginners, providing tips and techniques for authoring a good read. Viewers learn how to create well-rounded characters, complete with motivations and character flaws; techniques for establishing tone and mood; and how to capture attention starting on page one. The video also covers writing realistic dialogue, developing a good plot line, building tension, and arriving at a successful ending.
Internet Research and Information Literacy Thanks to the Internet, a virtual cosmos of information is at our fingertips. But does more equal better when helpful and not-so-helpful content are equally abundant? How is online propaganda different from traditional propaganda? What solutions do we have to the growing problem of plagiarism? This series illustrates best practices for viewers who are learning to apply academic standards and scholarly research methods to the rapidly evolving online world.
Non-fiction Writing People who make a living using various styles of non-fiction writing share how they do their jobs.

Writing for Success (1st Canadian Edition)
Writing for Success is a text that provides instruction in steps, builds writing, reading, and critical thinking, and combines comprehensive grammar review with an introduction to paragraph writing and composition.

Detailed Table of Contents
This detailed table of contents contains all section titles and page numbers for the .pdf version of this textbook.

Contribute a Verse: An Introduction to First Year Composition
This peer reviewed textbook, published by the University of North Georgia Press, combines a composition rhetoric manual with grammar and documentation instruction and resources, components that can be flexibly arranged to fit instructors’ classroom plans. Its reader compiles essays compiled for English 1101, focused for thematic discussion and selected for use in rhetorical analysis.

English Composition I
English Composition I develops students’ critical reading, writing, and research skills at the college level, with course materials structured around essential parts of the academic writing process. Key topics include reading strategies; rhetorical modes, multiple stages of the writing process; how to conduct research and cite relevant sources; grammar and mechanics; and success strategies. Engaging, curated OER content includes text, video, interactive self-check activities, and more. Content works well for standard instruction or diagnostically to reinforce areas that need attention. This course may be used alone or as part of a three-level sequence that prepares students for college-level work.

ENGLISH 1101 Course Materials: 2020: Texts/Sites

Grammar Bytes

Guide to Grammar and Writing

Excelsior Owl

FILMS on DEMAND

Towson University

Writing Commons

The Oatmeal

ELL